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...contains a scene in which Neptune uses his trident to frighten the patrons of a deluxe Manhattan swimming pool, an episode in which Bacchus finds modern whiskey so fiery it makes him belch, a passage in which Hebe discovers a container full of paper cups. Alan Mowbray plays the inventor with admirable presence of mind. Meg, the stone girl who becomes his accomplice when he converts her into flesh & blood, is Florine McKinney. Typical shot: Venus de Milo experimenting with a pair of arms...
Last week the inventor of the electrical pacemaker (TIME, Dec. 19, 1932), Manhattan's ambitious Dr. Albert Solomon Hyman, freshened up that kind of news by attaching thereto a schedule of Death. If the brain and central nervous system are deprived of refreshing blood for eight to twelve minutes, it is useless to try revival, said Dr. Hyman, because, even if the individual's heart is restarted, he will be a hopelessly crippled idiot...
...known to be in the possession of King Louis XIV of France and Thomas Jefferson. In this country alone several hundred patents for "fountain pens" were issued prior to Mr. Waterman's patent. None of these early pens was really satisfactory and, therefore, Mr. Waterman is considered the inventor of the fountain pen because his was the first practical and efficient one. The importance of his invention can be gathered from the fact that today, long after his patent has expired, the principle of his fissure feed is in use in all fountain pens...
Died, Thomas Alexander Boyd, 36, author (Through the Wheat, Mad Anthony Wayne, Lighthorse Harry Lee); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Ridgefield, Conn. He left two posthumous works, In Time of Peace (sequel to Through the Wheat) and Poor John Fitch, Inventor of the Steamboat...
Died, Paul E. Wirt, 85, attorney, inventor of the fountain pen; in Bloomsburg, Pa. Irked by ink constantly spilled on his legal papers, he invented a cumbersome pen, filled by a medicine dropper, on which for a time he held a monopoly...